Re: Where can I find this firmware file?

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Michael H. Warfield wrote:
On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 22:02 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
Patrick wrote:
On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 11:11 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
[snip]
Am I upset?, yes. Apparently support for ndiswrapper has been removed,
Removed from what? I have ndiswrapper running fine on my FC5 laptop with
that crappy Broadcom radio. Came straight from the rpm.livna.org
with "yum install ndiswrapper". If it is not available for
FC4 I guess you could download the latest SRPM from that site and
rebuild it yourself.

Regards,
Patrick
In FC5, they've a new version of the driver in the latest kernels now, and we are supposed to be able to make it work with the help of this bcm43xx-fwcutter utility, so there are apparently no new kmod-ndiswrapper modules for the newer kernels being made. Hasn't been one since 2133 TBE.

	Nonsense...  Pure and utter nonsense.

[root@canyon ~]# yum list | grep ndiswrapper
kmod-ndiswrapper.i686                    1.18-2.2.6.17_1.2145_F installed
kmod-ndiswrapper.i686                    1.18-2.2.6.17_1.2139_F installed
ndiswrapper.i386                         1.18-1.lvn5            installed
kmod-ndiswrapper.i586                    1.18-2.2.6.17_1.2145_F livna
kmod-ndiswrapper-kdump.i686              1.18-2.2.6.17_1.2145_F livna
kmod-ndiswrapper-smp.i586                1.13-4.2.6.16_1.2133_F livna
kmod-ndiswrapper-smp.i686                1.18-2.2.6.17_1.2145_F livna
kmod-ndiswrapper-xen0.i686               1.13-4.2.6.16_1.2133_F livna

Humm, according to that, I must not be that bad, but it sure isn't doing anything but locking my machine up in mid-boot.

Here is what that command says about mine:
[root@diablo /]# yum list|grep ndiswrapper
kmod-ndiswrapper.i686                    1.18-2.2.6.17_1.2145_F installed
kmod-ndiswrapper.i686                    1.18-2.2.6.17_1.2139_F installed
ndiswrapper.i386                         1.18-1.lvn5            installed

snipped to just the installed versions.

So lets refresh what I'm supposed to have in my /etc/modprobe.conf:
Currently its:
#options ndiswrapper if_name=wlan0
alias wlan0 bcm43xx
alias eth1 tg3
#alias wlan0 bcm43xx

which is obviously wrong as thats from when I was trying to make the kernel driver work.

Also, the contents of /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5a:
total 560
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    583 Apr 18 12:56 14E4:4301:103C:12F3.5.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 Apr 18 12:56 14E4:4301.5.conf -> /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5a/14E4:4301:103C:12F3.5.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    643 Apr 18 12:56 14E4:4318:103C:1355.5.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    643 Apr 18 12:56 14E4:4318:103C:1356.5.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    643 Apr 18 12:56 14E4:4318:103C:1357.5.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 Apr 18 12:56 14E4:4318.5.conf -> /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5a/14E4:4318:103C:1355.5.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    699 Apr 18 12:56 14E4:4319:103C:1358.5.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    699 Apr 18 12:56 14E4:4319:103C:1359.5.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    699 Apr 18 12:56 14E4:4319:103C:135A.5.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 Apr 18 12:56 14E4:4319.5.conf -> /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5a/14E4:4319:103C:1358.5.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    643 Apr 18 12:56 14E4:4320:0E11:00E7.5.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    651 Apr 18 12:56 14E4:4320:103C:12F4.5.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    643 Apr 18 12:56 14E4:4320:103C:12F8.5.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    643 Apr 18 12:56 14E4:4320:103C:12FA.5.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    643 Apr 18 12:56 14E4:4320:103C:12FB.5.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 Apr 18 12:56 14E4:4320.5.conf -> /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5a/14E4:4320:0E11:00E7.5.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    699 Apr 18 12:56 14E4:4324:103C:12F9.5.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    699 Apr 18 12:56 14E4:4324:103C:12FC.5.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    699 Apr 18 12:56 14E4:4324:103C:12FD.5.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 Apr 18 12:56 14E4:4324.5.conf -> /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5a/14E4:4324:103C:12F9.5.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  41622 Apr 18 12:56 bcmwl5a.inf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 371712 Apr 18 12:56 bcmwl5.sys

Then, for an ls -l /lib/firmware:
-rwxrw-rw- 1 root root  757760 Nov 28  2005 bcm1xsup.dll
-rwxrw-rw- 1 root root    9948 Nov 28  2005 bcm43xx.cat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    3696 Jul  7 05:46 bcm43xx_initval01.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      16 Jul  7 05:46 bcm43xx_initval02.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    3696 Jul  7 05:46 bcm43xx_initval03.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      16 Jul  7 05:46 bcm43xx_initval04.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    2568 Jul  7 05:46 bcm43xx_initval05.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     248 Jul  7 05:46 bcm43xx_initval06.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    2568 Jul  7 05:46 bcm43xx_initval07.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    2568 Jul  7 05:46 bcm43xx_initval08.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     248 Jul  7 05:46 bcm43xx_initval09.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     248 Jul  7 05:46 bcm43xx_initval10.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   20200 Jul  7 05:46 bcm43xx_microcode2.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   22352 Jul  7 05:46 bcm43xx_microcode4.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   23184 Jul  7 05:46 bcm43xx_microcode5.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    1312 Jul  7 05:46 bcm43xx_pcm4.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    1312 Jul  7 05:46 bcm43xx_pcm5.fw
-rwxrw-rw- 1 root root  658896 Nov 28  2005 bcmwl5.inf
-rwxrw-rw- 1 root root  379840 Feb 14 21:34 bcmwl5.PNF
-rwxrw-rw- 1 root root  424320 Nov 28  2005 bcmwl5.sys
-rwxrw-rw- 1 root root   81920 Nov 28  2005 bcmwliss.dll
-rwxrw-rw- 1 root root   33664 Nov 28  2005 bcmwlnpf.sys
-rwxrw-rw- 1 root root   69632 Nov 28  2005 bcmwlpkt.dll
-rwxrw-rw- 1 root root  122880 Nov 28  2005 bcmwls32.exe
-rwxrw-rw- 1 root root   22672 Nov 28  2005 bcmwls.ini
-rwxrw-rw- 1 root root  176128 Nov 28  2005 bcmwlu00.exe
-rwxrw-rw- 1 root root 2313329 Nov 28  2005 data1.cab
-rwxrw-rw- 1 root root   36304 Nov 28  2005 data1.hdr
-rwxrw-rw- 1 root root     512 Nov 28  2005 data2.cab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  658896 Apr 17 20:13 gene.inf
-rwxrw-rw- 1 root root  346602 Nov 28  2005 ikernel.ex_
-rwxrw-rw- 1 root root    6200 Feb 14 21:34 INFCACHE.1
-rwxrw-rw- 1 root root  168448 Nov 28  2005 is.exe
-rwxrw-rw- 1 root root  658896 Nov 28  2005 jene
-rwxrw-rw- 1 root root      28 Nov 28  2005 launcher.ini
-rwxrw-rw- 1 root root     417 Nov 28  2005 layout.bin
-rwxrw-rw- 1 root root   45056 Nov 28  2005 setup.exe
-rwxrw-rw- 1 root root     595 Nov 28  2005 Setup.ini
-rwxrw-rw- 1 root root  162610 Nov 28  2005 setup.inx
-rwxrw-rw- 1 root root     628 Nov 28  2005 setup.iss
-rwxrw-rw- 1 root root    3485 Nov 28  2005 sp29842.cva

And finally, a cat of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0:
DEVICE=wlan0
ONBOOT=no
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
TYPE=Wireless
MODE=Managed
ESSID=MountainHost
CHANNEL=6
IPADDR=192.168.1.1
DOMAIN=coyote.den
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=no
IPV6INIT=no
RATE=Auto
DHCP_HOSTNAME=diablo.coyote.den
HWADDR=00:14:A5:75:32:C9

Currently disabled for obvious reasons.

	Looks like there are 2133 and 2145 out there right now, and have been.
Half the damn mirrors don't even have the 2154 kernel yet, so I don't
expect Livna to be caught up yet.

I haven't seen it here either.

	Also...  The ndiswrapper driver is NOT just for the fscking Broadcom
drivers.  It's a generic driver wrapper so, even when the bcm34xx driver
is half way stable, it will still be available for other NDIS based
Winblows drivers.

Note that the below was when I tried to make the kernel bcm43xx work instead of ndiswrapper..

I followed the procedure thats supposed to make it work, but all I got for my trouble was a lockup, complete and total, and it cost me several hours and a boot to the ubuntu live cd to effect a transfer back to an external radio via an ethernet cable. I keep waiting, and running yumex 2-3x a day, hoping we'll get a new kmod-ntfs for the last 2

	kmod-ntfs has jack to do with this thread.  It had no relationship with
ndiswrapper.  Why bring that up?  (Besides which, all of my kmod-ntfs is
up to date - what's YOUR problem?)

Sure it does, without it, I'd have no way to access the winblows driver and get the next thing that bcm43xx thinks it needs. But lets see what I have:
[root@diablo /]# yum list|grep ntfs
kmod-ntfs.i686                           2.1.27-1.2.6.17_1.2139 installed
kmod-ntfs.i686                           2.1.27-1.2.6.17_1.2145 installed
ntfs-kmod-common.noarch                  2.1.27-1.lvn5          installed

But it doesn't work with the 2145 kernel, I've tried several times. 2139 is the only one that works for that. That was one of the reasons I asked about yum, which seems hell bent on removing the older versions even if the kernel is still present and maybe even running ATM.


kernels, but as of this morning, zip, nada, nothing.

	I've been less than happy with the built-in bcm43xx drivers, so far.
They work in many simple cases with limited access points (APs).  In
some cases, I've been flooded with "associated requests" and "associate
timeouts" and various random acts of terrorism, especially where there
are multiplex APs with various parameters.  The damn driver spams the
shit out of syslog with multiple messages.  In those cases, I've been
able to unload the bcm43xx drivers and associated drivers and then load
the ndiswrapper with the appropriate firmware just fine.

	When that driver doesn't work, I've run this...

for i in bcm43xx ieee80211softmac ieee80211 ieee80211_crypt ; do
rmmod $i
done
modprobe ndiswrapper

	And away we go...  All works cool...

	Ndiswrapper is NOT going away even if we have a PERFECT bcm43xx driver
and 80211 protocol stack.  There's just always going to be some drivers
we need that shim for.  Even as a backup.

--
Cheers, Gene

	Mike

If in the above, you can see why its all gone to hell in a little red wagon, I'd appreciate a url or pointers on howto fix the current 100% crashomatic setup.

--
Cheers, Gene

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